[curt.clifton]

Perhaps not the answer you're looking for, but the way I've been (somewhat) successful with problems like this is by being rigorous about weekly and monthly reviews. If something is popping into my conscious, then that means I have open loops that I need to think about.

I think the other piece is renegotiating commitments when there are more projects than I could possibly do at once. This might mean renegotiating with myself or others. But I've decided I'm being dishonest if I leave more projects active than I can make progress on. (I put these renegotiated projects On-Hold or set future start dates in OF.) My experience has been that people are very open to renegotiating commitments if I'm honest with them and up front about my other commitments.